Scientists in Okanagan Valley detect radio bursts from distant galaxy

Though we're guessing this wasn't E.T. trying to phone home, scientists in the Okanagan Valley have detected a repeating radio signal that they believe are emanating from a galaxy 1.5 billion light-years away.

The signals, which are known as fast radio bursts, were discovered using the Okanagan Valley's Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) radio telescope by a Canadian led team of researchers from the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, McGill University, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the National Research Council of Canada.